6 Quotes by Serhii Plokhy

The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986.

Why are you raising such a fuss? I'll come and shut down your reactor with my ass alone.

The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa.

Historically, the shock of war, the humiliation of defeat, and the open wound of lost territories have served as potent instruments for building national solidarity and forging a strong national identity.

Anna wrote to her father that she found her new land “a barbarous country where the houses are gloomy, the churches ugly, and the customs revolting.” Paris under Henry I was clearly not Constantinople, but more importantly, in Anna’s eyes, it did not rank even with Kyiv.

Why are you raising such a fuss? I’ll come and shut down your reactor with my ass alone.